{"id":14356,"date":"2019-07-02T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T09:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14356"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:51:11","slug":"osoba-chief-aremo-olusegun","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/osoba-chief-aremo-olusegun\/","title":{"rendered":"OSOBA, Chief Aremo Olusegun"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist, Politician, Administrator. BORN July 15, 1939, Osogbo, Oyo State; PARENTS: Mr and Mrs Jonathan Babatunde Osoba;<br \/>\nMARRIED Aderinsola Adeyemi (the Beere Awujale of Ijebu), 1974, two sons, two daughters (Kemi, Olumide, Oluyinka and Tobi);<br \/>\nEDUCATION: African Church School, Osogbo, 1947-53, Methodist Boys High School, Lagos, 1956-61, University of Lagos, 1965, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, 1970-71, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1974-75;<br \/>\nCAREER: Appointed Reporter, Daily Times, Lagos, 1964-67; Diplomatic &#038; Political Correspondent, Daily Times, 1968-69; Acting News Editor, Daily Times, 1968; Editor, Lagos Weekend, 1968-71; Deputy Editor, Sunday Times, 1971; Deputy Editor, Daily Times, 1972-75; Editor, Daily Times, 1975; General Manager, Nigerian Herald, Ilorin, 1975-78; Managing Director, Daily Sketch, Ibadan, 1979-84; Managing Director, Daily Times of Nigeria, 1984-89; Past President, Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria; Member, Executive Board, International Press Institute, 1984-1992; Member, Board of Directors, Nigerian Newsprint Manufacturing Company (NNMC), Oku Iboku, Akwa Ibom State, 1985; Publisher, Community Magnet, Abeokuta; Member, Constituent Assembly 1988-89; Council Member, Commonwealth Press Union, since 1984; Member, Nigerian Union of Journalism (NUJ); Correspondent, The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),Correspondent, The Times of London; Correspondent, Newsweek Magazine, USA; Correspondent, United Press International News Agency (UPI); former Chairman, Governing Board, Nigerian Institute of Journalism;  elected Governor of Ogun State, 1991 &#8211; 93; Executive Governor, Ogun State, 1999- 2003; Member, National Conference, 2014;<br \/>\n POLITICAL PARTIES: Member, defunct Social Democratic Party; Member, Alliance for Democracy; All Progressive Congress (APC);<br \/>\nAWARDS AND HONOURS: The Nieman Fellowship Award for journalism, 1974; Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON);<br \/>\nTRADITIONAL TITLES: Otun of Ago- Oba; Akinrogun of Igbore; Akinrogun of Egbaland, Aremo Awujale of Ijebu;<br \/>\nPUBLICATIONS:  Mike Awoyinfa and Dimgba Igwe: &#8216;Segun Osoba: The Newspaper Years&#8217;, Corporate Biographers, 2011, xviii, 396p; \u2018Battlelines: Adventures in Journalism and Politics\u2019, Diamond Publications Limited, 2019.<br \/>\nHOBBIES: Music, Lawn Tennis, Swimming, Badminton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25450,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2449,452,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14356","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrator","category-journalist","category-media","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26276,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14356\/revisions\/26276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14356"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}